Electric Six

With thanks to Emperor Helltroll for providing a link, Electric Six's latest masterpiece. I'm listening to it now and it is fucking mega.

Artist: Electric Six

Album: Flashy
Genre: Alternative Rock

Track Listing:

1. "Gay Bar Part Two"
2. "Formula 409"
3. "We Were Witchy Witchy White Women"
4. "Dirty Ball"
5. "Lovers Beware"
6. "Your Heat is Rising"
7. "Face Cuts"
8. "Heavy Woman"
9. "Flashy Man"
10. "Watching Evil Empires Fall Apart"
11. "Graphic Designer"
12. "Transatlantic Flight"
13. "Making Progress"

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Blind Illusion

Did somebody just say "Thrash Metal with Les Claypool on bass"? Because I think I just heard someone say "Thrash Metal with Les Claypool on bass".

Artist: Blind Illusion

Album: The Sane Asylum
Genre: Thrash Metal, Progressive Metal

Track Listing:

1. "The Sane Asylum" - 1:37
2. "Blood Shower" - 3:53
3. "Vengeance is Mine" - 5:29
4. "Death Noise" - 7:08
5. "Kamakazi" - 5:06
6. "Smash the Crystal" - 3:29
7. "Vicious Visions" - 6:17
8. "Metamorphosis of a Monster" - 6:39

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Romantic Gorilla

Romantic Gorilla sound exactly how their cover art looks on this, their self-titled debut. Not a great fan of thrash or punk, I've got to admit I really enjoy this, which LastFM classifies as a Davey-validating 'powerviolence'. Screw genre though, this is just awesome fun. For fans of Melt Banana, as Romantic Gorilla have about the same attention span.

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Lush

And now the second! Thank you, Davey!

For Lush's first proper full-length, the band opted to work again with Robin Guthrie. Though generally delightful, Spooky suffers from being bottlenecked into a dream-drift haze that isn't as convincing as the ones concocted by the likes of My Bloody Valentine and A.R. Kane. On paper the Guthrie/Lush collaboration seems like a match made in heaven; however, this lacks a punch and balance that begins to frustrate by the latter half. Whatever dynamics Lush appear to be capable of are rendered limp by Guthrie's sonic razing. Saving the record from being buried is a batch of quality songs. Despite its faults, it's more hit than miss. It's easy to criticize the lack of drive, but the drifting nature is rapturous in spots. Regardless, the draftiness is relied upon too often.

The three singles released from the LP ("Nothing Natural," "For Love," and "Superblast!") showcase the aggressive side, if only through a relative nature. As with much of the band's early material, guitars dart and veer all over hell's half acre -- just as you hear a gentle strum in one ear, another guitar whisks by like an overhead jet, only to be grounded to a halt by a swollen jolt from some netherworld. If stripped of its myriad effects, "For Love" would sound like a top-rate Go-Betweens song, filled with lovely jangles and smart songwriting. Closer "Monochrome" is a melancholy ballad whose cousin is Catherine Wheel's "Black Metallic." Beneath all the swooning and swaying, it almost suckers you into missing the cheesy "dum-dum-dum" drum lead-in to the choruses, airlifted out of your least favorite Top 40 schlock ballad circa '86. Those devils!

Review Courtesy Of AllMusic.Com

Artist: Lush

Album: Spooky
Genre: Shoegaze

Track Listing:

1. "Stray" – 2:07
2. "Nothing Natural" – 5:54
3. "Tiny Smiles" – 4:26
4. "Covert" – 3:34
5. "Ocean" – 4:49
6. "For Love" – 3:29
7. "Superblast!" – 4:07
8. "Untogether" – 3:33
9. "Fantasy" – 4:27
10. "Take" – 3:28
11. "Laura" – 3:22
12. "Monochrome" – 5:05

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Slowdive

David has given us shoegaze! Thank you David! Here is the first album!

Though not as big and swirling as Just for a Day, there's more of an attempt to put advanced song structure and melody in place rather than just craft infinitely appealing, occasionally thunderous mood music. Everything is simplified, as if Brian Eno's presence on two songs -- he contributes keyboards and treatments and co-wrote one tune after turning down the band's invitation to produce -- hammered home the better aspects of "ambient" music. This is no Music for Airports though. On the opening "Alison," the largely uplifting "When the Sun Hits," and the darkly blissful "Machine Gun," Slowdive are still capable of mouth-opening, spine-tingling flourishes. They've found a way to be quiet, moving, and aggressive simultaneously, mixing trance-like beauty with the deepest delayed guitar sounds around, a sound at once relaxing, soothing, and exciting, and most of all harshly beautiful.

Review Courtesy Of AllMusic.Com

Artist: Slowdive

Album: Souvlaki
Genre: Shoegaze

Track Listing:

1. "Alison" – 3:52
2. "Machine Gun" – 4:28
3. "40 Days" – 3:15
4. "Sing" – 4:49
5. "Here She Comes" – 2:21
6. "Souvlaki Space Station" – 5:59
7. "When the Sun Hits" – 4:47
8. "Altogether" – 3:42
9. "Melon Yellow" – 3:53
10. "Dagger" – 3:34
11. "Some Velvet Morning" – 3:23
12. "Good Day Sunshine" – 5:08
13. "Missing You" – 4:15
14. "Country Rain" – 3:34

Bonus Disc:
1. "Some Velvet Morning" – 3:23
2. "So Tired" – 4:03
3. "Moussaka Chaos" – 6:24
4. "In Mind" – 3:45
5. "Good Day Sunshine" – 5:08
6. "Missing You" – 4:15
7. "Country Rain" – 3:34

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Thunderbolt

The album is Demons & Diamonds. I dunno what it is or where it comes from, but it sounds like Power Metal and durry wanted it up.

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Harvey Danger

You may have heard of them. Well, to be honest, you probably haven't. But I'm sure you know the song Flagpole Sitta, which was all over the place in the late '90s and was used as the theme song for the genius British sitcom Peep Show. The album I'm posting today doesn't actually have that song on it but you'll like it anyway.

Harvey Danger are an indie rock band from Seattle. Little By Little is their third full-length studio album, and in 2005 they released it as a free download from their website - before Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead made it cool.

It's a nice little album, and well worth a listen. And at least it's not noise. I mean, who the fuck wants to listen to Masonna? (Lolicat touches little boys.)

Artist: Harvey Danger

Album: Little By Little
Genre: Indie Rock

Track Listing:

1. "Wine, Women, and Song" – 3:15
2. "Cream and Bastards Rise" – 3:17
3. "Moral Centralia" – 4:27
4. "Little Round Mirrors" – 5:15
5. "Happiness Writes White" – 3:09
6. "Incommunicado" – 2:16
7. "Cool James" – 3:26
8. "What You Live By" – 3:04
9. "War Buddies" – 4:25
10. "Diminishing Returns" – 5:13

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